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...blasted out about 15 letters without keeping records. I thought, What's the use? I'm just going to get a big fat no. So the official record is 45, but really it's probably more like 60 rejections. And then finally Susan Ramer at Don Congdon agreed to take it on. I couldn't even believe she was excited about the book. We ironed out a few wrinkles and then she sent it out. In my mind, it was like, a week before it was published. But maybe that's because the five years of rejections made it seem...
There are many distinctions between the old Party Fund system and the new SIP grants. Whereas money from the Party Fund could be used for private suite parties, SIP Fund events must take place in House common spaces. This makes them easier to monitor and also opens them to all the students in the neighborhood in which the event is taking place. Encouraging students to host social events in already existing common spaces like grilles or JCRs will make the most of the present options while the College looks at how to expand common spaces...
...under renewed scrutiny among gay activists, some of whom are calling for a more pointed and even confrontational approach. "While time may be on our side, if we leave these issues up to the voters to eventually change or overturn, there is no telling how much time it will take," says Chris Hartman, executive director of the Fairness Campaign in Louisville, Ky. Hartman's group has successfully pushed for a local ordinance giving gays there protection against discrimination at work and in housing, but so far has been unsuccessful in convincing lawmakers to allow gay marriage. "LGBT Americans have been...
...laws regarding marriage. Hartman said more ordinary gay and lesbian people are going to spread their message themselves, rather than leaving it to national gay-rights-campaign officials and full-time activists. "People are getting angrier," Hartman says. "More and more people are beginning to feel empowered to take the fight for their rights into their own hands, and I believe we will see them confront their legislators face-to-face with greater frequency and urgency. I believe that is the type of confrontation that will emerge - people no longer willing to sit idly by and leave the fight...
...Neither this country - nor the values that we were founded upon - could exist without men and women like these 13 Americans," Obama said. "Their life's work is our security and the freedom that we too often take for granted. Every evening that the sun sets on a tranquil town; every dawn that a flag is unfurled; every moment that an American enjoys life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - that is their legacy...